Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-08-22
MONDAY, AUGUST e2, 1887.
EsooryeSs yErutlr.


The Chronicle in showing its hostile
animus to Los Angeles county is kick
ing against the pricks. 1t is wretch
ed policy for the press of one section
of this State to antagonize another.
Every Californian ought to take
pride in standing by the claims OF all
portions Of this Incompatible COM
monwealth. For long time past
there has been decided undercnr-
rent OF ill-wiIl on the part OF the
newspapers of many of the northern
and central counties against
those counties which compose
the section known as Southern Cali
fornia, and particularly against Los
Angeles county, which represents in a
very conspicuous form the growth
which is taking place in all OF them.
Notwithstanding the fact that our San
francisco contemporary is not pre-
pared to receive the intelligence very
pleasantly, Los Angeles county will,
within the next lustrum, contain
three hundred thousand people. Her
shipments of the citrus fruits, BRAN
dies, wines, early vegetables and
early fruits will within that Pc
Rod be something marvellous. 1t has
been the good natured fashion
hitherto in this section to concede
the claim that San Francisco will
always remain the leading city of the
Pacific Coast, but this admission has
been made on insufficient premises,
and is not warranted by the present
Indications. An immense region,
really continental in magnitude, is
tributary to this city, and it embodies
resources that in variety and value
promise simply wonderful results.
Los Angeles is already one of the
gre attest railway centers on the Amer
ica1 continent, enjoying transconti-
mental rail facilities far superior to
those of San Francisco. This city is
the center of a tremendous oil belt,
and discoveries of bituminous coal ar
being made on every hand. The
greatest tide Of immigration ever
known in California, not even except
ing the Argonaut days, is pouring in
here. 1t was not directed here by the
Chronicle, and that journal is power
less to avert it. The fragrance of our
orange groves and the equability of
our climate, the latter attested not
only by official statistics but by
the personal experience OF the
tourist, will undoubtedly have
their effect in making our settlement
piienomenally rapid. Thus the in
dications are flattering that in addi-
fion to being an unsurpassed sanitar-
ium this city will be great manu-
featuring and commercial center.
The Chronicle would do well TO read
the testimony of the Messrs. A. N.
Towne, J. G. Stubbs and other man.
ayers of the Central and Southern
Pacific Railways before the Railway
Commissioners, and which embodies
n melancholy recital OF the manner
in which recent railway develop
Is have taken trade away from
that city. Here the note is OF con-
slant and heavy increase of business,
and a number of transcontinental
railways are busy laying tracks, which
are crossed on every hand by those of
local railway enterprises. Our San
Francisco contemporary would do
xeif, at the same time, to note the
number of San Francisco business
men who ha We Established branches
of their business in Los Angeles,
these branches, in many cases, re-
cording more, and more profitable
transactions than the parent houses
themselves
The Chronicle might just as well
face the music first as last. A great
metropolis is growing up at Los An
geles and great section in South
California. 1t should accept the
situation good-humoredly on the prin-
ciple of needs must when the devil
drives.